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Game Information
The Portland Pilots will finish the regular season with three home games in six days beginning with a West Coast Conference contest with San Francisco on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Chiles Center. The game will be televised live on Comcast SportsNet Northwest with Scott Lynn and Dustin Geddis providing the commentary. Portland will then host Santa Clara on Saturday at 8 p.m. on CSN Northwest and finish the regular season against Lewis & Clark on Tuesday at 7 p.m. with Senior Night. Thursday’s game will be on the radio at 970 AM, while Saturday will be on 750 AM and Tuesday will be tape-delayed starting at 8 p.m. on 95.5 FM.
Ticket Information
Tickets are still available for all three games through all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, over the phone at (800) 745-3000 or in-person at the Pilot Box Office. General admission tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for youths if bought in advance, or $8/$6 at the door.
Promotions
Saturday’s game will feature a pregame Winter Brew Fest for fans 21 and older at the plaza in front of the main entrance to the Chiles Center. Food and adult beverages will be available from 6-8 p.m. Fans wearing purple will receive $10 lower level seating for Saturday’s game at the Pilot Box Office, while all upper level general admission seating for Tuesday’s Senior Night will be $5.
Pilots Briefly
*UP split on the road last week by beating Pepperdine (83-62) and losing in OT at LMU (77-68)
*Portland has climbed to seventh nationally in team three-point percentage (.404)
*Pilots have won seven of nine games and are 10-2 at home this season
*Jared Stohl is the school’s career leader in three-pointers made (229)
*Leading scorer Nik Raivio has missed the last nine games (Achilles’ strain) and will miss Thursday’s game as well with the ailment
*Stohl replaced Raivio in the starting lineup and is averaging 16.0 points in his absence
*Stohl leads the WCC in 3-pointers made (3.2) and is third nationally in 3-point percentage (.474)
*Luke Sikma leads the WCC in FG percentage (.567) and is second in rebounding (8.3)
*UP leads the WCC in scoring defense during league games (64.2)
*T.J. Campbell is the first Pilot in history to earn three WCC player of the week honors in one year
*Stohl went 10-for-15 from the three-point line vs. Idaho on Dec. 22 with 30 points, becoming the first college player in a decade to score 30 without making a free throw or two-point field goal
*UP also set a team and Chiles Center record for total three-pointers (16) in the win vs. Idaho
*UP cracked the AP Top 25 for the first time in 50 years on Nov. 30 (#25)
*Portland defeated UCLA (74-47) and No. 16 Minnesota (61-56), before falling to No. 8 West Virginia (84-66) at the 76 Classic in Anaheim over Thanksgiving weekend
*Campbell earned 76 Classic All-Tournament Honors after averaging 16.7 points in the three games at the 76 Classic
*Raivio recorded his 1,000th career point on Dec. 2 vs. Portland State
*Portland was picked second in the WCC Preseason Coaches Poll behind Gonzaga
*Campbell and Raivio were named to the 10-player WCC Preseason All-Conference Team
*Raivio was also named an honorable mention mid-major All-America by CollegeInsider.com
*Portland appeared in the inaugural CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) last year, the program’s first postseason appearance since 1996
*The Pilots tied for second in school history last year in total wins (19) and WCC wins (9)
*Portland returns 12 players and all five starters
*2009 WCC Coach of the Year Eric Reveno and his staff remain together and enter their fourth year at the helm of the Pilots (assistants Joel Sobotka, Eric Jackson and Michael Wolf)
*Four high school seniors singed NLI’s with Portland on Nov. 11, 2009: Riley Barker, John Bailey, Ryan Nicholas and Tanner Riley
About San Francisco
The Dons (12-15, 7-5 WCC) sit alone in fourth place in the WCC standings entering the final weekend of the regular season. San Francisco pulled out a tough overtime road win at Santa Clara on Saturday, 71-68. Senior F Dior Lowhorn scored a game-high 28 points and sophomore F Angelo Caloiaro added 20. USF made 12-of-19 three-pointers for the game, including 4-of-5 by Blake Wallace off the bench. Lowhorn has led the WCC in scoring each of the last two seasons and is averaging a team-high 18.9 points this year. Sophomore G Kwame Vaughn is the only other USF player averaging double figures (12.4). The Dons have won five of their last six games, beginning with an 81-77 overtime win over then-No. 9 Gonzaga. Three of their wins during the run have come in overtime. Second-year head coach Rex Walters returns four starters and six lettermen from last year’s 11-19 squad that finished seventh in the WCC (3-11). USF leads the all-time series with Portland by a 45-24 margin, but the Pilots have won three straight including a 74-58 win at War Memorial Gymnasium on Jan. 28 of this year. Prior to those wins, the Dons had won 10 in a row and 14-of-the-last-15 in the series.
